THE PEACE BLOGGER: June 2008

For the next 2 weeks most of the world will watch Wimbledon and follow the path of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to a third final with maybe for the first time in 5 years a different winner.
As a tennis fan, I've got a lot of admiration for Rafael Nadal and truly admire his amazing skills, mental strength and fantastic will to win every point, to me his determination to win is similar to what we saw last week with Tiger Woods, who won the US Open championship despite being injured on his knee and ankle, or to Michael Jordan during his exceptional career with the Chicago Bulls concluded by 6 rings of NBA Champion and 2 Olympic Gold Medals...

The fact today is that while most people (specially in UK) will be tuned to Wimbledon or watching the Euro football 2008, Robert Mugabe has a good chance to remain in charge of power in Zimbabwe and carry on ruining the life of an entire population with only politic and diplomacy as the main weapon to solve this genocide.

I'm quite upset with the fact that none of the African leaders (Thabo Mbeky, Omar Bongo, Abdoulaye Wade...) did stand out strongly to criticize a man who just ruin his country economically and politically and don't even seem to be bother about that as long as he can use the military force to stay in power.
If Morgan Tsvangirai (Zimbabwean opposition leader) confirms his decision to not participate in the 2nd round of the presidential election this week, this will be a disaster not just for Zimbabwe but for Africa.

The worst in that the genocide will continue.

It amaze me sometime to think that it took less than that for the French government (4 years ago) to send his army in Ivory Coast when military and ethnic trouble started to have an impact on their own economic interest, and what about Angola, Iraq, Kuwait....
While people are dying everyday and town like Harare burning, the world witnessed how an old man like Robert Mugabe can stand firm on his feet and dictate his fearful politic with the arrogance of a serial killer pointing his angry finger to Great Britain as a challenge to come over there and try, just try to stand in front of him, knowing already that nothing can touch him.

I hope Rafael Nadal win Wimbledon, it would be a fantastic reward for a young man from Majorca who despite his strong game on clay, has always said that winning Wimbledon is his Holy grail, and I believe that he deserve it.

For the rest, my thought and my pray are for the people of Zimbabwe who suffer an injustice and still keep faith in ours world leaders to make the right decision on their future, a decision which could give them hope or not.

God bless you...

Hi guys, I'm back, finally..... Well with the release of the new 3G Iphone it was time for me to take a stand (in front of my friends) and tell them why next month I will be queuing at my local Apple store to get my new toy.

Usually I’m not the guy that rushes out and buys every new toys on the market, I like to wait a few weeks and read online the customers reviews which always give you interesting input and time to save some dollars.....
I didn't buy the 2G Iphone last year because I knew somewhere that it was a matter of time before Steve Jobs announce a new improved model with 3G and open source, and obviously it was quite expensive....

Sure I'm an Apple fan, I've got 2 Ipod already and had various Mac in the past (Apple II, Macbook...) and I can't wait to get my hand on the new model and take advantage of the new features, like, say 3G HSDPA speeds, GPS location services, a flush headphone jack(!), not to mention the App Store apps which will certainly take advantage of, if not demand, an iPhone 3G, and being on the bleeding edge for this ride seems like a no brainer.

I don’t always need the latest or the greatest (sometime yes...), but when Apple combines both those things together in a gorgeously evolutionary little package like iPhone 3G, how can I resist?

I mean £99 for a 8GB 3G Iphone, come on this is great new, should I say fantastic new, because at this price you can finally afford the best phone on the market for a monthly fees of £30, and if you need more space capacity or more music volume then you can get the 16GB for just £159 with a choice of colour (Black or White)......
O2, here in UK, even talk about a pay as you go model, which is a fantastic opportunity for people already committed to a long contract (like me) and who want to enjoy having a 3G Iphone. You add to that GPS mapping and 3G Internet faster than a Nokia N95 (according to Steve Jobs), instant access to Apple Application store to get the latest development program....

Well I don't need to blog for hour about that, I will get a new 3G Iphone probably during the week after the worldwide release (to be honest with you, I hate queuing) and will write another post about my first thought later....